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A fine quality Louis XVI cut brass and tortoiseshell inlaid…
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Melbourne
Date:
20-Nov-2011
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Description:
A fine quality Louis XVI cut brass and tortoiseshell inlaid pedestal clock mid 18th century, the movement signed D. Bourdin, a Bordeaux, the movement converted from verge to anchor escapement, with an eight day count wheel strike on one bell, the brass dial with enamelled Roman numerals, within a foliate cut brass inlaid and tortoiseshell veneered case, glazed to either side and applied with gilt bronze mounts, surmounted by a gilt bronze figure of an angel holding a trumpet and frond, raised on an ebonised pedestal, inlaid contra partie in pewter, brass and tortoiseshell, the whole with finely cast gilt bronze mounts, the clock 88.5 cm total height; the pedestal 135 cm high.
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Horology (Clocks & watches): Clocks - Zother